Saturday, May 10, 2014

The days are growing short

Final preparations have begun: packing the packs (one more
time); counting socks and underwear; labelling the clothes.

I shortened my sweetie’s new pants—that was tricky. The
pants had zippers at the hem, and they’re zip-offs. I cut the excess fabric out
of the lower-leg pieces and adjusted the taper at seams, sewed the pieces
together, and replaced topstitching that had been disturbed. It might have gone
a little better if I had done it in two cuts, one above and one below the knee,
but it will do. I did resist the urge to add extra (new) pockets made out of the
removed fabric! Those bits of nylon poplin will have a use, I am sure. Maybe
pouches for storage? We’ll see.

We are learning to use our new cameras (the old ones were
pretty old, and besides the new cameras have much better optical zooming!) and
have discovered that we need to add a small carry-on bag to the list—something that
is soft, lightweight, and able to hold the cameras, cell phones, Kindle,
boarding passes…the usual little things that can’t be checked. Plus some
snacks!

It looks like the new bag will be a soft sided fabric
affair, with strap handles. I’m going to use up some of my Texas A&M
quilting fabric for this one. (Sorry, Tech, but I don’t have any Red Raider
fabrics in the house! Maybe you should license some.) One of my children bleeds
Maroon, anyway. ;-)

For now, since there are no bag pictures to show yet, I will
put up one of the pictures from my new camera.

Oh, and for any readers from Mexico who are
Mothers: ¡Feliz
Día de Madres!

from my sweetie's new camera, a neighborhood flower (gaillardia, zoomed)

from my new camera, the little puppy--hanging out in the kitchen of course!